Moving back after residency in Australia

[fieldy]

Hi everyone,

I'm Canadian, went to med school in Australia, stayed and started post grad training but now want to move back to Canada.

1. Currently training in internal medicine with aim to specialise. How hard is it go back with internal med specialist training? Do I have to write Canadian exams and if so which ones? What is the general process for this?
Basically can you come back to Canada easily after specialising in Australia?

2. in general you have to write the MCCQE for any specialty to practice in Canada, right? Including GP even with the equivalencies from Australia?

Would greatly appreciate any help. Thank you everyone. 🙂

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[UBC2014]

Hi everyone,

I'm Canadian, went to med school in Australia, stayed and started post grad training but now want to move back to Canada.

1. Currently training in internal medicine with aim to specialise. How hard is it go back with internal med specialist training? Do I have to write Canadian exams and if so which ones? What is the general process for this?
Basically can you come back to Canada easily after specialising in Australia?

2. in general you have to write the MCCQE for any specialty to practice in Canada, right? Including GP even with the equivalencies from Australia?

Would greatly appreciate any help. Thank you everyone. 🙂

Yikes. So you went down this path of residency choice, without doing this research first?

Call the royal college in Canada asap and get it straight from the horses mouth, to figure out licensing. Its much easier if you did Family medicine training, but may not be impossible with specailist training - just definitely not straight forward. But even if you are able to get licensed in Canada by going through a bunch of hoops(and yes, you will have to write the internal medicine specialty exams too), you will then have to figure out how to get jobs and/or academic appointments. Not easy.

Good luck you'll need it.

 

[UBC2014]

MCCQE1 and 2 is just the baseline exams all residents have to write. You have to do your specialty specific exams also at the end of your residency.

 

[Eagle90]

Depends on which province you're from. Every provincial college has their requirements, but for the most part there are 3 requirements:
1) Canadian Citizen or PR
2) LMCC: Getting this certification means passing the MCCEE (soon to be scrapped), the MCCQE1 & the MCCQE2
3) Specialty Certification / Fellowship: This means becoming a CCFP (GP) or passing the RCPSC (specialist) exams.

If you do all those; you should be able to practice in Canada.

** EDIT: To specifically answer your last question though; Ontario grants a restricted licence for doctors who have their CCFP (Granted to FRACGPs or FACRRMs without examination) but have yet to pass their MCCEE, MCCQE1 or MCCQE2. You would have to pass those exams within 3 years.
Source: CPSO - Restricted Certificate of Registration for Exam Eligible Candidates